What is CVE-2025-12981?

CVE-2025-12981 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Dreamstechnologies Listee, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-02-27.

How severe is CVE-2025-12981?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Dreamstechnologies Listee

CVE-2025-12981

The Listee theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This is due to a broken validation check in the bundled listee-core plugin's user registration function that fails to properly sanitize the user_role parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as Administrator by manipulating the user_role parameter during registration.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.006 (44.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Dreamstechnologies Listee — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-12981?: CVE-2025-12981 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Dreamstechnologies Listee, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-02-27.
How severe is CVE-2025-12981?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.